trimming strings

Riley

hey -I have a string $source which is 50 or so lines of html source. The html is full of new lines, tabs, etc. I want to trim $source so that all the html is on one line, or at least so that there are no new lines/tabs (this is so I can run functions like eregi() and substr_count(), etc, blah blah).

I tired using trim():

$ONE_LINE = trim($source);

the above did absolutely nothing. I also tried

$ONE_LINE = trim($source,"\n.");

this also did nothing.

I am a newbie. please forgive my ignorance and help me before I poke my eyes out with a fork in aggrivation.

Thank you!
Riley

devinemke

$source = str_replace("\r", '', $source);
$source = str_replace("\n", '', $source);
$source = str_replace("\t", '', $source);

Riley

ahhh. yes, that makes sense.

but for some reason it's not working 🙁

when I add it to my code, and after the form is submitted ($source in from a form), I get the following error:

Fatal error : Call to undefined function: _str_replace() in /home2/riley/public_html/g.php on line 24

line 24 isn't anywhere near the str_replace() though.
anyway, here's the code:

$source=$_POST['source'];
$source=str_replace("\r",'',$source); 
$source=str_replace("\n",'',$source); 
$source=str_replace("\t",'',$source);
$d = eregi("<td class=row2 align=center valign=top>(.*)</td>",$source,$e); 
$NAME2 = $e[1];
$NAME = strip_tags($NAME2);

I know that the str_replace() is causing the problem because when I take it out the script doesn't have any errors (but it also doesn't work).

anyway, any thoughts?

Megahertza

I don't know if this should work, Maybe you should try this in the same way as you did with str_replace().

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